The Toyota Prius, any generation.

OK, hold on a sec... *cracks knuckles* for street vehicles, the following mods should result in an immediate impounding and crushing of your vehicle:

Lift kits. Body lift kits. Chrome bumpers. Tubular bumpers. Truck nuts. Bull bars. Winches. Tow hooks. Chrome tips. Light bars. Roll Bars. Double/triple roll bars.…

I can honestly say I can’t tell the difference. Which means other consumers can’t tell the difference. And since they aren’t advertising the difference, unless you’re really, really into telsa (like you know they call it project highland), no one knows or cares.

The problem is, Telsa still thinks of itself as the undisputed king of it’s niche, and is doing nothing to shore that position up. So they’ve still got terrible QA, and as a mass market manufacturer, you’re gonna have to refresh the style of your cars, match prices, match accessories and features. And you’re gonna…

My favorite thing about the Ioniq 5 is that stylistically, it’s basically a master class in showing Tesla how to build something with sharp angles and retro styling that actually works and doesn’t suck.

Considering that the EV that they’re talking about here is all sharp angles and retrofuturist styling, I don’t know if what you’re saying actually makes sense.

You can only be different and quirky for so long. And if you aren’t putting in the hard work behind the scenes, your products will eventually fall out of favor. And if you make everything about you, and you happen to be repellent, that’s not going to help either.

Oh for fucks sake just let your average drones work remote so this guy can work from whatever rich people enclave he lives in.

The problem I grew to have with Top Gear was that it got soooo repetitive- the increasing focus on crazy horsepower and cars that are, let’s face it, mostly undrivable off a race track. Driving on top gear devolved into smokey drifts and burnouts in unatainable million dollar supercars.

I have to take issue with “however, they were pretty bland cars-” They were not. Remember, at the time, they were like stepping into the future, if you were used to what american cars were at the time. My dad got one (a metallic sandalwood wagon) as a company car and it was just... WOW.

Also it has retractable metal shutters for the windows because... crime? I think that’s my biggest gripe with it, it’s what someone who lives in a gated community thinks you need to drive into a city- it’s just missing a MAGA hat.

Ooooh, the ford SYNus is... not good. The name is bad enough but the vehicle itself is just awful. It’s small-ish- Think gen 2 Scion XB size crossed with a Hummer H2 mixed with an armored car. That said it still looks better than every truck on the market today.

The Surly Pugsley

Right, but adding gender and race means it’s harder to fight the ticket. Because there are lawyers who make a living just on fighting tickets like this.

And this is 100% why you field test things before you release them to your audience, and you make sure your testers aren’t a monoculture.

Which has honestly always been the case with enthusiasts. Enthusiasts have always gravitated to older used stuff because it costs less.

Mechanical shifting has made amazing strides in the last few years. That said, I’d be happy to swap out the mechanical shifters on my MTB with wireless- the difference between wireless shifting on an MTB and mechanical is like the difference between hydraulic brakes and mechanical- there’s just so much less effort in…

It’s absolutely hillarious that Shimano’s semi-wired system is the one that’s vulnerable and SRAM’s completely wireless system is fine.

That dry heat will fool you though- like, if it’s 89 and humid in wisconsin, we are all inside because it’s fucking miserable, even being out on a lake sucks.

OK, hold it on this one. I’m actually quite invested in this one as my kiddo is getting their driver’s license. And surprisingly enough, they get taught a LOT, and the skills they require are 100% appropriate. To the point that she will now point out when I roll a stop sign, change lanes without signalling and any…